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The ease of doing business has not come about and investment rates have not increased. An alternatively simpler GST exists but the government is not willing to admit its failure. Further, while the benefits have not accrued to the country, fiscal federalism has been dented.
Book Review: The author dubs the BJP’s efforts to connect with the Muslim community, especially the Pasmandas, through “Sneh Yatras” and other outreach initiatives, as tokenistic, part of BJP’s vote bank politics, and as efforts to pit Muslims against one another.
Meteorological data show slightly elevated temperatures in Ganjam, more frequent cyclonic weather patterns, which in turn cause tidal surges, as well as uncertain rainfall creating drought conditions. Ganjam, thus, gets the worst of both worlds.
An excerpt from ‘Banned and Censored: What the British Raj Didn’t Want Us to Read’, selected and introduced by Devika Sethi. This written statement was issued by Nehru when he was charged with sedition, with instigating Indians not to pay taxes, and with offences under the Indian Salt Act.
To hear the BJP’s claims, one would think that India was entirely sunk in a morass of economic and technological backwardness before May 2014.
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi is known for his supreme sacrifice in trying to stop communal violence in Kanpur in 1931. Another lesser known duo from Ahmedabad, who displayed similar idealism and laid down their lives on 1 July, 1946, were Vasant Rao Hegiste and Rajab Ali Lakhani.
The English translation of Tho Paramasivan’s ‘Ariyappadatha Tamilakam’ offers just enough salt to taste the richness of Tamil.
Lohia’s understanding of the centre-periphery relationship in the capitalist world system led him to struggle with the question of appropriate technology, one that accorded priority to equality over productivity, and encouraged decentralised governance and autonomous, connected villages.
A new book by David Michael Smith, ‘Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire’ (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), estimates that the U.S. empire is responsible, or shares responsibility, for close to 300 million deaths.
The Global North perceives migration to be the result of immediate circumstances, detached from colonial pasts, the ecological crisis, and the systemic underdevelopment of the Global South. As long as the conditions driving mass mobility keep thriving, such accidents will continue to take place.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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